Recipe: Appetizing Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies)

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Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies). Enjoy Watching and Trying Out Our Home Recipe Amma Samayal Official #Nethili #Sambal #Anchovies #SambalIkanBilis #IkanBilis #MalaysianCooking #AsianDish. Nethili sambal is a Malaysian Dish.

The good news is, anchovy stocks have doubled because their predators - the type without legs - have declined sharply in numbers.

I don't need much persuasion to eat sambal ikan bilis.

Salty little fishies and deep-fried peanuts make a perfect.

You can cook Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies) using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies)

1. It’s of Blend the paste.

2. It’s 3 of normal size onions (I love onions by the way).

3. Prepare 8 of garlic.

4. You need 4 of candle nuts.

5. You need of Shrimp paste, 1/3 of ur pinkie.

6. It’s 1 of small piece ginger.

7. It’s 20 pieces of dried chilli soaked in hot water for 10 mins.

8. Prepare of Making the sambal.

9. It’s 1 packet of anchovies (pre-soaked for 10 mins than fry).

10. It’s of In the same oil, add :.

11. It’s 1 of onion - sliced.

12. Prepare 10 of curry leaves.

13. You need 1/2 teaspoon of mustard seed.

14. You need of Add the blended sambal paste.

15. Prepare of Sugar.

16. It’s of Salt.

17. You need of For sugar and salt I do not have a measurement as I added little by little until I got the right taste.

Sambal ikan Bilis or ikan bilis sambal (dried anchovies cooked in spicy paste) is synonymous with nasi lemak in Malaysia.

Ikan bilis (dried anchovies) come is many sizes and grades.

Needless to say, the better quality will make much better sambal.

You can deep fry the anchovies before adding to the sambal for an extra crunch.

Nethili sambal (ikan Billis / anchovies) instructions

1. Presoak chilli & anchovies 10 mins in advance..

2. Fry the anchovies.

3. Blend the paste.

4. Use the same oil as the fried anchovies, add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and onion..

5. Once the onion looks white/translucent, add the blended paste and fry the sambal paste..

6. Add salt & sugar little by little as it takes awhile to fry..

7. Once the sambal looks dry, add the fried anchovies..

8. Let it cook until it dries up and it’s ready..

9. Will add pictures on the next round :).

View Recipe Details Below 'Ikan Bilis sambal' is anchovy sambal.

It is a traditional Singaporean/Malaysian home dish.

Anchovies for some reason are not very well-liked in Australia.

Sambal Ikan Bilis is a fiery spicy sauce that is as a side dish for various Asian foods, popular in many countries including Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

There a literally hundreds of different variations of this sauce, ranging from mild, to very hot.